Agenda

March

AED Neuland

Every year, wishing to promote students and designers under the age of 28 who are at the beginning of their careers, the AED association awards the AED Neuland prize. The criteria, according to which an interdisciplinary panel evaluates the work, focus on the level of innovation, sustainability, functionality, economic usability, and aesthetics as well as demonstrating a clear benefit for people and society. Participants can submit entries in the following categories: architecture and engineering, exhibition design and interior design, product design, communication design, interaction design. The winner of each category will receive a prize money of 2,000 euros. Together with other nominated submissions, the winning projects will be presented in a touring exhibition and a publication.

Call for Entries. Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung

The Stiftung Buchkunst is launching its annual competition “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung” (Advancement Award for Young Book Design). Publishers, producers, designers, authors and friends of beautiful books are invited to submit their projects by the end of March. Since 1989, in collaboration with the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Stiftung Buchkunst has been looking for the book of tomorrow with unusual ideas for book design.

There is little consensus even among those involved in design discourse about exactly how to define the concept of design, making it all the more important to encourage writing on content and style. Developed in honour of the industrial designer Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg, responsible for major contributions to the professionalisation of the design discipline in Germany, the Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Advancement Award for Essays in Design Criticism 2019 is being held for the eighth time to support design students and graduates in their theoretical work. The Swiss publisher Niggli Verlag will publish the winning text as an independent book in the series “bf-preis. Designkritische Texte”.

German Recycling Design Award

The initiative Recyclingbörse is looking for innovative solutions for the use of waste and residual materials in order to find the Recycling Design Award winners. A ten-member jury will select from the submissions according to criteria of design quality, utility value, novelty, and future potential. Designs that can be produced in series by craft businesses or that can be realised in collaboration with workshops for the disabled or youth workshops, for example, are welcome. The three best concepts will be sponsored with prize money and presented together in a travelling exhibition with those selected as distinguished ideas and most interesting submissions.

April

There is little consensus even among those involved in design discourse about exactly how to define the concept of design, making it all the more important to encourage writing on content and style. Developed in honour of the industrial designer Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg, responsible for major contributions to the professionalisation of the design discipline in Germany, the Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Advancement Award for Essays in Design Criticism 2019 is being held for the eighth time to support design students and graduates in their theoretical work. The Swiss publisher Niggli Verlag will publish the winning text as an independent book in the series “bf-preis. Designkritische Texte”.

German Recycling Design Award

The initiative Recyclingbörse is looking for innovative solutions for the use of waste and residual materials in order to find the Recycling Design Award winners. A ten-member jury will select from the submissions according to criteria of design quality, utility value, novelty, and future potential. Designs that can be produced in series by craft businesses or that can be realised in collaboration with workshops for the disabled or youth workshops, for example, are welcome. The three best concepts will be sponsored with prize money and presented together in a travelling exhibition with those selected as distinguished ideas and most interesting submissions.